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Thanks Shas! (Vik only gave 9)

Aye, I can easily do the tags my own way (as opposed to Dave, I did do a lot of wall cleaning in my youth due to tagging those walls first and being caught) but I thyink its cooler to keep the style the same, so as to make sure that whoever finds my stuff on the net, or daves, twenty years from now, will know ah... that was the league...

I have the pics saved already aye, and will work from there, but you know, having them in front of me on paper would have helped. I'll go about the difficult way now...

Thank you again for inspiring me Dave!!

I still have the paper, but it's at home. I can scan it for you next week.

That'd be way cool... by that time i will have all my shanties up and painted for sure... 5 are done already, but i'm slacking in the picture department right now...
As a matter of fact, i'll get to that right now...

 dsteingass wrote:
Thanks Shas! (Vik only gave 9)

LOOL... well... there are some tiny bits that still prevented me from voting then tenner in painting

but i always vote coolness 10 as there is no other way around

and nerdy... that´s what i call a hollywood worthy initiating speech! well done... now live up to that!

Rusty and dirty... Still needs more dirty?

Here's a fun idea - pick a small scale model of a famous building (crysler, empirestate etc) and make it post apocalyptic. Rust, ruination - plant life. We could have a competition. I actually have no idea if anywhere makes scale models of skyscrapers but probably!!

P.S. I'm drunk.


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We could make zem out of zee plazticard

WooHoo! A Drunk redhead on a friday night!! A guaranteed recipe for a good time!


Skyscrapers eh??

What "tiny bits" Vik?

actually it is the mortar ... somehow i would have loved to see more definition on this... i likie as siad earlier the sooty look of the bricks... but the aestheticsof brickwork is for me in the contrast between mortar and brick color... here in the berlin surrounding area...called brandenburg you see a lot of the yellow/sandy brickwork... so i am fine with the yellow bricks... just more mortarlines^^ and i´d be a happy nerd

pft... I'm just going to snub you now Dave...


*secretly cries in corner at lack of named grafiti in my honour*

Aww Childe..you need to rivet to get into the League.

You mean light-colored mortar? Like grey?


Bench is clean, bring it on mailman!

it might be a matter of scale tho... so that you got out of the kit already everything that was possible...
this way perhaps?...

At that scale, perhaps you are right

I guess I was trying to think big


Or farther away?



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I'm not sure how I would do that after coloring the brick. I'd be afraid that a light grey wash would also grey my bricks. Hmmmm, I'll figure it out.
Gouache maybe?

first two buildings look good... third not so... of course crappy CGI...

with trying to think big or far away you are referring to the optical illusion, right? well indeed the models are much more detailed i think than an actual view could see in detail if he would look at stuff from a scale relative point of view... but well we always opt for the rule of cool...

by the way... MY favorite brick color is still red.... with possibly white/grey mortar lines... that really makes me jiggy^^... also that gives you the excuse to add mossy green patches...


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Gouache

??? never heard of that... and translation only brought the same term...:(

a grey wash would have ruined everything... when you started that building i thought you chosen the yellow color for the mortar... and then sponge or drybrush over the brick color... since you work on such big surfaces with AB of course this is not the right procedure... don´t get me wrong... i really love that building... it stands for all the down to earth people living in good and honest homes... i just detest those cheap built buildings out of concrete plates...like:




horribly to live in... and way too many houses built like that here...

I have riveted

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
first two buildings look good... third not so... of course crappy CGI...

with trying to think big or far away you are referring to the optical illusion, right? well indeed the models are much more detailed i think than an actual view could see in detail if he would look at stuff from a scale relative point of view... but well we always opt for the rule of cool...

by the way... MY favorite brick color is still red.... with possibly white/grey mortar lines... that really makes me jiggy^^... also that gives you the excuse to add mossy green patches...


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Gouache

??? never heard of that... and translation only brought the same term...:(

a grey wash would have ruined everything... when you started that building i thought you chosen the yellow color for the mortar... and then sponge or drybrush over the brick color... since you work on such big surfaces with AB of course this is not the right procedure... don´t get me wrong... i really love that building... it stands for all the down to earth people living in good and honest homes... i just detest those cheap built buildings out of concrete plates...like:




horribly to live in... and way too many houses built like that here...

HEY I make correctly scaled wall plates like that... also made of a kind of concrete.... Lol

 dsteingass wrote:

Valhalla130 wrote:I'm still not sold on the yellow brick, but that looks really great. I voted on all your pics. I could definitely see that on the street of some Necromunda hive.

Thanks man! But the color is called "Middlestone"- haven't you ever seen beige bricks?

Dr H wrote:Nice building dsteingass.

The metalwork
The aircon unit thing with a little power kill switch
The windows
All the weathering
and the tags
Did I miss anything? All good and very inspirational.

I shall strive to reach a comparable level of realism in my modelling.

Thanks a lot dude! You CAN do it, you just need to break it down into steps is all. Anyone can do it.

alabamaheretic wrote:Its good man sometimes things just dont motivate you the same as when you first started them. and you always like making tanks and if that makes you happy then go for it. i dont have the imagination to make awesome buildings but seeing other peoples work what ever it is makes me want to paint better so i can get some atta boys.

any way enough motivational talk hurry up and get off of work so you can make more cool stuff lol

I spent a lot of time looking at buildings IRL, the Urban Explorer sites are always full of inspiration like this. You don't need a lot of imagination, just a reference photo or two and the right materials.

Why are the bottom bricks red? It makes it look like the top bricks were painted. Lol

Nope. Around here (Columbus, Georgia) there is nothing but red brick. Maybe some purple or different shades of red, and sometimes almost white when they get that white clay (but that's like one brick out of a thousand in the home.)

We actually have some brick makers aroudn here so all of ours are local. And very red. Nothing but good Georgia clay used around these parts.


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And by that I just meant I'm not used to seeing other color bricks, not that they don't exist. And still, your building is excellent and I would be happy to have one of my own on the table. Which I may now that I see how it's done.

Val, Now that I look at it closer it is a red brick building with some sort of stucco overcoat peeling off

All these pics I posted to prove you and Vik wrong are just biting me in the ass tonight

I'll earn it.
The mailman didn't come :(
But..My local Hobby Shop carries the DPM panels


It's on

 Galorn wrote:

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
first two buildings look good... third not so... of course crappy CGI...

with trying to think big or far away you are referring to the optical illusion, right? well indeed the models are much more detailed i think than an actual view could see in detail if he would look at stuff from a scale relative point of view... but well we always opt for the rule of cool...

by the way... MY favorite brick color is still red.... with possibly white/grey mortar lines... that really makes me jiggy^^... also that gives you the excuse to add mossy green patches...


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Gouache

??? never heard of that... and translation only brought the same term...:(

a grey wash would have ruined everything... when you started that building i thought you chosen the yellow color for the mortar... and then sponge or drybrush over the brick color... since you work on such big surfaces with AB of course this is not the right procedure... don´t get me wrong... i really love that building... it stands for all the down to earth people living in good and honest homes... i just detest those cheap built buildings out of concrete plates...like:




horribly to live in... and way too many houses built like that here...

HEY I make correctly scaled wall plates like that... also made of a kind of concrete.... Lol

well... i ment i love brickwork... your stuff is very fluffy ... one needs to discern taste and cool work ...


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i bet such a suply drop on your desk....all neatly side by side... must be the quiet before the storm...

and no arsebiting here^^

Any chance of a scale shot next tot a door or window of the DPM panels please

Dave check this out I don't know how good it is up close mind, but I thought it would be a scream for your FO board http://nassauhobby.com/Operating-Drive-In-Diner/

Also found these and thought they might be of interest http://chicagolandtoysandhobbies.com/Trains-O-Gauge-Structures-for-O-Gauge/?subcategory=O-Gauge-Railroading

 AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:
pft... I'm just going to snub you now Dave...


*secretly cries in corner at lack of named grafiti in my honour*

We have our own club off to the side anyway. All we do is look at the shinies from the corner and go "Cor! that's a good job rivets man".

 n0t_u wrote:

 AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:
pft... I'm just going to snub you now Dave...


*secretly cries in corner at lack of named grafiti in my honour*

We have our own club off to the side anyway. All we do is look at the shinies from the corner and go "Cor! that's a good job rivets man".

lols... well kinda... except my club consists of Nids and Ogres... so pretty much "OM yeah, NOMNOM Rivets NOM Shiney NOMNOMNOM pointy NOM Like NOMNOM"

Rivets on a nid? Must have been Orks!

No need to prove me wrong, dave. I fully believe there arre yellow brick buildings out there. Also, who's to say you're underhive building isn't a red brick building with some kind of underhive mud stucco covering over it.

Childe..Because you are a special case, I'll make a special tag for you on the next building, k bud?

Thanks LDD! Those background building fronts are intriguing....

Not-U- that's basically all the League does too, except we add the facade of a mysterious secret society and people's imaginations take care of the rest

Heh Val and Vik, There will be red brick in this Underhive district yet, I promise

Just for some examples of what I see almost everyday here in good old Columbus, GA:



And this is a brick kiln from our historic district in Heritage Park (which is a small plot about 500 x 500 feet or so and is supposed to pay tribute to our cotton mills, steel mills and brick industries.) This is just to show how big brick-making was here at one time. All our mills were made from the same brick too. I need to go tomorrow and take some pics of these places.



While looking for this, I ran into a great site that had some crumbling buildings from rural Georgia, and thought you might like to add these to your collection.













Then there was this gem, which is apparently an historic building and just a delightful color.




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And not all of those are crumbling buildings. At least one of them is a building currently in use, but is jsut of the kind of brick I wanted to show. Also, the green brick, and white brick building next to it were painted. A lot of older buildings around here used to be. When they all were the same color, people painted them to make them stand out. So now a lot of them are crumbling, with peeling paint coming off in large swatches.

It's a really nice building, my favourite parts by far are the window panes, they look really excellent. The broken glass technique is something I have thought of doing, but the opaque/dirty panes is not something I had thought of and really adds a lot of character. The pipe work is also really great.

I think the building looks like it was painted yellow as opposed to being made out of yellow brick. I don't think bricks exists in a vibrant yellow like that (except in the Wizard of Oz) but the grimy, dirty paint look is really good and suitable for the underhive.

I am really not keen on buildings in the underhive being made from red brick as it ties very strongly to a specific era and style of architecture, especially with those window and door frames so I am glad you didn't do that.

My only criticism is that this looks like more of a show piece than a gaming piece, I know you don't play much so it doesn't matter maybe, but really you want as many walkways (or places walkways can connect to), collapsed walls etc as possible. This building is really just a giant LOS blocker.

PS. I used that same door recent and someone in my gallery commented that the models looked out of scale next to it. I think it's partially scale creep, Necro models are now so tiny, that door is over twice their height!

These are really nice reference pictures gathering in this thread.

Thanks guys! It is a show piece...I needed to build the kit for an IPMS-USA review, so I made something out of it. There will be more walkways than you can shake your stub pistol at
LDD's requested scale shots


These aren't CoD panels that is for sure. ALL PARTS need beveled, sanded, lined-up, sanded again, glued off, cussed at, then sanded again
..But this is gonna be cool!


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I live in Limestone rich Indiana, Yellow bricks exist my friend

My Underhive is going to be unique. I've already done all the classics, and now I'm doing brick. I'm sorry if you don't like it. There will be dirty bricks of every color. A recent dome collapse uncovered this older hab dome with these brick buildings in it, preserved for Millennia.

As long as the whole city becomes somewhat of a show piece they should be fine with it.

I'd say maybe pick a small palette of brick colours and stick to it though. Probably were already doing that.

Thanks for the scale shot Dave not bad match really

As for guidelines of what is right and wrong, it is 40k anything is possible as everything is born from the ridiculous the first place .

Like the early detailing as well, although if it was me I would be tempted to remove the window frames, they look a bit wrong and after what I just said sounds hypocritical